Discover Tornaco: Culture, Landscape and Holiday Apartments in Tornaco
Accommodation in Tornaco
Tornaco combines a distinctive local history with insights into rice culture and a rural setting. If you are looking for a holiday apartment in Tornaco, you can shape your stay around architectural history, open-air art, farming traditions and paths through the landscape. Villa Marzoni, Santa Maria Maddalena, the MUDI, as well as Fontana Valbordone and Campo del Buschitt give the town a range of distinct, clearly recognisable facets.
Architectural history around Villa Marzoni
Villa Marzoni stands on a natural rise on the remains of the keep of a 15th-century castle. The engineer Luigi Marzoni had the manor villa built in 1896. Its interior façades retain original architectural features, including arches on columns in the area of the first above-ground floor. Villa Marzoni houses the Museo della Civiltà e Cultura della Bassa Novarese.
The parish church of Santa Maria Maddalena also reaches far back into the past: its origins date to the 12th century. A surviving section of wall is probably part of the fortification wall. It includes an entrance arch and possibly the heavily remodelled element of a tower.
Rice culture and discoveries in the town
The MUDI is an open-air museum dedicated to the world of rice and the mondine, the women who worked in the rice fields. At the MUDI, large-format reproductions of artworks are displayed on the exterior walls of residential buildings; visitors can view them as they walk through the streets. The Sala Miniature of the Museo della Civiltà e Cultura della Bassa Novarese houses working miniature agricultural machines in its rooms. Tornaco thus presents rice culture both through its world of work and through visible art in public spaces.
Landscape between the spring and rural paths
Fontana Valbordone is a risorgiva, that is, a groundwater spring where the riverside vegetation has been restored. Campo del Buschitt is municipal land that served as an animal cemetery until the 1980s and is now being restored through the planting of native species. After a section on an unpaved road and a poplar-lined avenue, Percorso 5 passes the Oratorio di Santo Stefano on its way to Tornaco. The spring, planted municipal land and tree-lined sections of the route give discovering the town a distinctly rural character.
Choosing a holiday apartment in Tornaco based on your interests
When choosing a holiday apartment in Tornaco, you can use your preferred travel rhythm as a starting point: architectural history is concentrated at Villa Marzoni, the parish church of Santa Maria Maddalena and the remains of the fortifications. Rice culture can be seen at the MUDI, in its miniature machines and in the images on the house walls. Fontana Valbordone and Campo del Buschitt add a landscape element, while Percorso 5 connects the rural sections of the route with the Oratorio di Santo Stefano and Tornaco. This allows you to give different weight to cultural discoveries and experiences of the landscape.
More places for your planning
More places for planning your own trip: Auzate, Bellinzago Novarese, Casalino, Cureggio, Baraggia, Vacciago, Gargallo and Trecate.
For the overarching travel overview: Novara.
